Cold Steel - New for 2016

Insipid Moniker said:
Street price on the Colossus looks to be around $150. Not really that bad, all things considered.
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Wow, 50% off MSRP? Usually street price is less than MSRP but not that much less. Not terrible I guess, though still more than I'm willing to pay for it. $83 for the Broken Skull is more along my lines. Plus the machetes which are always cheap, and that $35 Recon Hawk(I'm pretty surprised it's that low TBH!)...
 
Man with no name said:
I'm curious about this as well. On knifecenter.com the product description says that these two knives are made in Japan
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I saw that too which is why I asked Cold Steel. I'm pretty certain that's just a leftover from the former ad and is wrong though.
 
I just spoke to Cold Steel customer service and was told that the 3V SRK and Recon Tanto are made in Taiwan. So now we know.
 
DShiflet said:
Wow, 50% off MSRP? Usually street price is less than MSRP but not that much less. Not terrible I guess, though still more than I'm willing to pay for it. $83 for the Broken Skull is more along my lines. Plus the machetes which are always cheap, and that $35 Recon Hawk(I'm pretty surprised it's that low TBH!)...
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Yeah it's usually much lower than the MSRP. For example code 4, MSRP is $135 but you can get it for $76 right after the release. knifecenter listed all the prices already and they are usually slightly higher than other places like amazon
 
hkyew said:
Yeah it's usually much lower than the MSRP. For example code 4, MSRP is $135 but you can get it for $76 right after the release. knifecenter listed all the prices already and they are usually slightly higher than other places like amazon
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Yeah, that's what I was saying. I said street price is usually less than retail. It is not, however, usually 50% off retail. Like your example Code 4 MSRP $135, right after release it was around $80(it's gone down a little more since then). Much less than retail, but not 50% off retail either.

From the current list of items, Broken Skull, MSRP $140, Knifecenter pre-order $84. Significantly less, but still not half off either. No complaints from me though, the more they wanna drop the price the happier I am!
 
DShiflet said:
Yeah, that's what I was saying. I said street price is usually less than retail. It is not, however, usually 50% off retail. Like your example Code 4 MSRP $135, right after release it was around $80(it's gone down a little more since then). Much less than retail, but not 50% off retail either.

From the current list of items, Broken Skull, MSRP $140, Knifecenter pre-order $84. Significantly less, but still not half off either. No complaints from me though, the more they wanna drop the price the happier I am!
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Yeah price will settle. I actually did some calculations last year for the 2015 new folders, since i bought most of them, and the price usually settles around ~55% of the MSRP.
 
I think the new all-steel axes are interesting. Estwings are pretty good but the neck can bend fairly easily. So maybe these are better.
 
I don't think that they have posted all of the new 2016 products yet.

There were a few things on the Moteng distributors website that are missing:

The Frenzy, which has three handle color choices, which is a folder based on the sword-breaker. Plus the above-mentioned new version of the Pro-Lite, which looks to be a budget line.

The Immortal is a folder based on the Gladius in two handle color choices and the Golden Eye fixed blade in Tanto- and Spear-Point options.
 
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Yes, there have been several mistakes on the Moteng website so far.

I still think there will be a few more new products added for 2016.

But we will have to wait and see for sure.
 
Cold Steel Knives said:
Several new items are in stock and shipping now from Special Projects
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The Polish mace reminds me of driving taxi to get through school years back. I took an oak dowel, cut it down and screwed/glued an iron pipe fitting to it. I pulled it a couple of times at 3am, but thank God I never had to use it. Deal with humans long enough in scruffy environments and the ''coombiya, let's hold hands and sing Puff the Magic Dragon'' mentality evaporates in a cold splash of reality.
 
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